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those towns. Wc know that they already have excellent cows 

 there ; but the number of such should be increased. 



We would add a general suggestion, whether competitors 

 should not be required in all cases to set one or more days' 

 milk, and to state the quantity and quality of the butter produced 

 therefrom. Your present regulations put a cow whose milk 

 has such limited butteraceous properties that a fly might swim 

 the entire first day of June through a pan of it, without clog- 

 ing his limbs, upon a perfect equality with one whose milk may 

 raise a cream as thick as the lid of a churn. It may be asked 

 in reply to this proposition, Why make any further regulations, 

 if those heretofore adopted are not observed? The proper 

 answer, as it appears to us, is, that public notice should be 

 given that all persons who desire to compete for these premi- 

 ums must apply to the secretary on or before the 15th of May, 

 when the circulars could be delivered. 



N. T. Leonard, Chairman. 



Remarks hy the Directors. 



It will be seen by the above report that the committee have 

 been compelled to renew the annual complaint of non-compli- 

 ance, on the part of those competing for the premiums offered 

 for this class of animals, with the conditions prescribed by the 

 society. It is a source of deep regret to the directors that the 

 cause for such complaint should still exist. It has for many 

 years been a matter of deep solicitude with this society to 

 avail themselves, through the statistics anticipated upon this 

 subject, of some reliable data of facts and figures upon which 

 some correct estimate might be established in relation to the val- 

 ue of the different breeds of cows for the dairy. This fact alone, 

 once established, would be worth more to the members of the 

 society than the whole amount of premiums offered upon the 

 entire class of milch cows. To obtain these facts, and others 

 most intimately connected with the subject, a circular, em- 

 bracing certain interrogatories calculated to draw out such in- 

 formation, has been furnished to every one desirous of contest- 

 ing for the premiums, with this provision : No premium will be 



